Rafter vs Rafte - What's the difference?
rafter | rafte |
One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
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flock of turkeys
To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
To furnish (a building) with rafters.
(UK, agriculture) To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between rafter and rafte
is that rafter is to make (timber, etc) into rafters while rafte is (obsolete).As a noun rafter
is one of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads or rafter can be a raftsman.rafter
English
Etymology 1
Old English . Cognate with "raft".Noun
(en noun)- the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters ,
